A couple weeks ago I posted to my blog asking if anyone had a recommendation for a meta-vertical search engine in the spirit of the early days of DogPile.
Today, I found this meta-vertical search engine written by a 15-year-old and a 16-year-old. Valleywag’s commentary on the launch of this new site is fairly entertaining. [...]

TourFilter is a site for checking out upcoming music shows, which doesn’t sound particularly unique on the surface, but it makes incredible use of AJAX to mashup The Hype Machine.
When users on TourFilter see a band they are interested in, they can click a text link next to the band which says “mp3s.”  Clicking expands [...]

This piece of geekified sewing circle gossip caught my eye: Steve (YouTube Co-Founder) left the Facebook to start YouTube with Chad.
A choice quote from a former Facebook employee:
Since only 16 months later YouTube is selling to Google for $1.65B, I laugh at myself at how insistent we were that he personally come return his corporate [...]

Some fun from Hugh worthy of a reBlog:

I have tried out as many different social bookmark services as I could find over the past few weeks. Mainly just to experiment; I don’t have any significant complaints about del.icio.us. I just want to see what else is out there. I want to see where del.icio.us fits into the spectrum of [...]

Just got my first printing of “The Gong Show” back from the studio. Granted, it’s on casette, but this blog likes to kick it retro sometimes (Gaming peaked with the 8-bit NES), so I’m ok with tapes.

Thanks to Laughing Squid for the original story, and print your own at says-it.

I generally prefer to listen to music on my laptop (so last.fm will scrobble my songs).
However, it’s frustrating that I have to either sign-out of my IM-client, edit the sound preferences in my IM-client, or deal with the obnoxious “ding” of IM windows.  I don’t want to permanently remove my IM sounds (and other application [...]

I added the MeeboMe widget to my blog a week ago based on this post by Charlie.  I’m constantly trying to find new ways to open up dialogue with my readers, so I thought this would be a good solution.  It turns out that Charlie’s analysis nailed it: great concept, but the IMs need to [...]

In Bio, there is endless academic debate about the Drosophila. In AI, the common ground for discourse is Chess. In web services’ business models, the battlefield of choice is YouTube.
I think the main reason why the blogosphere spends so much time talking about YouTube is because their traction is so exciting. However, [...]